- Spain: Spy agency warned of plans to storm Ceuta before mass migrant crossing, documents show
Source: Reuters
“Spanish intelligence services warned their Moroccan counterparts and Madrid of migrants’ plans to storm Ceuta a day before more than 70,000 people crossed into Spain’s North African enclave, according to documents released by the government on Wednesday. In a July 29 note to the Moroccan intelligence agencies DGST and DGED, Spain’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Centre (CNI), warned of plans on social media platforms for migrants to enter Ceuta by scaling the border fence or swimming around it, taking advantage of Morocco’s annual Throne Day celebrations. On the same day, the CNI also warned the Spanish government’s representative in Ceuta of the plans, according to declassified WhatsApp messages. … The release of the documents is likely to intensify scrutiny of the operational decisions taken in the hours before the crossing and whether sufficient measures were put in place to prevent it.” (09/10/26)
- US Unemployment Claims Dip to 206,000 as Layoffs Continue to Remain Rare
Source: US News & World Report
“Slightly fewer Americans filed for unemployment claims last week as jobless claims remain at historically low levels and layoffs are still relatively rare. Filings for benefits dipped to 206,000 last week from a revised 207,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week volatility, also fell modestly to 206,000. Claims for jobless benefits are a proxy for layoffs, and economists watch them because they can be a sign of where the job market is headed. For the past year, claims have mostly stayed within a historically low range of 200,000 to 230,000 a week.” (09/10/260
- UK: England’s mayors to get power to impose tourist tax
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Mayors in England will be given the power to impose a new fee on visitors’ overnight stays, in a move the government says will mean more money can be invested into local areas. Under the plans, local leaders will be able to bring in an uncapped levy, dubbed a ‘tourist tax’, as a percentage of the cost of hotels, bed and breakfasts and other types of accommodation rather than a flat fee. Hospitality leaders have warned it will put jobs at risk and hit families in the pocket. But the government said it would protect budget holidays ‘by making sure low-cost accommodation always pays lowest levy’ and said the extra cash could be invested in high streets and local transport.” (09/10/26)
- UK: Rabbis back regime sanctions on Israeli squats in occupied West Bank
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Several leading British rabbis have backed the UK’s new sanctions on Israeli [squats], amid protests from prominent Jewish groups and leaders against the measures. A day after the sanctions were announced by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, senior Masorti rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg took to X to express his support for the sanctions. ‘What is taking place today in the West Bank is a Chillul HaShem, a violation of God’s name of the worst order. We cannot stay silent. This is terrible for Palestinian people who want to get on with their lives in peace. It is terrible for Israel,’ Wittenberg wrote on X. … Elsewhere, Rabbi Alexandra Wright of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London said that the ‘occupation and escalating violence are harming Palestinians and Israelis’. … Other rabbis who came out in support of the measures include Jeremy Gordon of the New London Synagogue, and Lev Taylor of Kingston Liberal Synagogue.” (09/10/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/british-rabbis-back-uk-sanctions-israeli-settlements
- CA: Accused election fraud kingpin snared for massive ballot harvesting scheme
Source: New York Post
“Federal agents on Thursday captured an accused election fraud ringleader who allegedly paid Skid Row homeless a few bucks each to sign California ballot petitions using the stolen identities of real voters. The FBI apprehended alleged election crook James Brass, a.k.a. ‘Lord,’ in Victorville, San Bernardino County, just before dawn. He allegedly ran his scheme through a small company he owns called Pinnacle Brass …. Also charged in the two-count indictment against Brass are two petition circulators who allegedly worked for him: Courtney Price, 49, of Jacksonville, Florida, and Jateisha Herron, 33, of Boron, California. … All three defendants are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit identity fraud in furtherance of a state felony. Brass and Price are charged with an additional count of identity fraud in furtherance of a state felony.” (09/10/26)
- Vance tries to walk back senile boss’s $5k bribe offer
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Vice-president JD Vance appeared to partially row back on Donald Trump’s outlandish claims that every adult citizen in the US would receive $5,000 if the Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections. … Vance, speaking after the president, suggested the so-called dividend payments would not go to the wealthy and that it could be paid for by US tariff revenues – though the suggested payment dwarfs what the US has taken in through the protectionist measures. Congress would need to approve or otherwise acquiesce to the payment. The sum would far exceed US tariff revenues even before the Supreme Court tossed much of the president’s tariff program last year.” (09/10/26)
- TSA gang weighs major change to frustrating airport “security” rule for travelers who pay “PreCheck” bribes
Source: Fox News
“Travelers could soon be allowed to bring full water bottles through some airport security checkpoints — a major shift from longstanding airport security restrictions. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is weighing whether to allow TSA PreCheck passengers to bring water bottles through security checkpoints, according to reports. The change would apply to a select number of airports across the United States. … TSA PreCheck, which allows eligible travelers to use expedited security lanes and typically keep their shoes, belts and light jackets on during screening, generally costs less than $100 for a five-year membership, according to the agency.” (09/10/260
- China’s car exports in first 8 months surpass 2025 total, as EV sales soar
Source: Seattle Times
“China’s passenger car exports in the first eight months of this year already surpassed last year’s total, an industry association said Thursday, though domestic sales continued to decline. Passenger car exports in August jumped 67.1% from the year before to around 890,000 units, driven by plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). China exported more than 6.2 million passenger vehicles in January-August. Exports of all types of vehicles totaled 7.1 million last year, CAAM data show, including about 6 million passenger vehicles. The world’s largest car exporter is on track to achieve 50% to 70% growth in full-year passenger vehicle exports, according to S&P Global Ratings.” (09/10/26)
- Twenty-five dead after fire on cargo ship in eastern China
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Twenty-five people have been killed in a fire on a foreign-flagged cargo ship docked at a port in eastern China, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Of the 42 people on board, 17 were were evacuated of which five are in hospital in stable condition, CCTV reports. The vessel was undergoing maintenance at a shipyard in the city of Qingdao when the blaze erupted at around 11:15 local time (03:15 GMT). It was put out just over three hours later, according to CCTV. Photos released by state media showed the vessel to be the Ocean Melody, a 190m (623ft) long Liberia-flagged carrier which arrived in Qingdao on 31 August, according to tracking site MarineTraffic.” (09/10/26)
- US regime publicly confesses to three more maritime murders
Source: United Press International
“The U.S. military has attacked another boat in the Caribbean, [murdering] three people, alleging the vessel was involved in narcotrafficking. The attack occurred Wednesday, the 69th publicly acknowledged strike in the Trump administration’s yearlong military campaign that has [murdered] at least 230 people whom the administration alleges were drug traffickers, though at least some of those [murdered] are believed to have been civilians. As is the case with such strikes, little information was made public by U.S. Southern Command, which conducted the strike, and described the boat as a ‘go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean.'” (09/10/26)
- Trump promises $500 Obamacare rebate checks for 1 million enrollees in 30 states
Source: SFGate
“The Trump administration is promising $500 rebate checks to an estimated 1 million Affordable Care Act enrollees across 30 states, who the White House alleged were overcharged by the Biden administration for exchange fees. … Enrollees who can expect refunds are those who do not receive premium assistance. Critics called the move a ‘gimmick’ that doesn’t represent a plan for addressing soaring healthcare costs. Trump in his address accused former President Joe Biden’s administration of ‘gross mismanagement’ of ACA funds, without providing evidence, and said that the Biden administration collected user fees from insurance companies that consumers paid through higher premiums.” (09/10/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/trump-promises-500-obamacare-rebate-checks-for-22425627.php
- Brazil: Supreme Court chief suspends colleagues’ rulings amid election row
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“The chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court stepped in Wednesday to halt conflicting rulings by two fellow judges as a dispute over alleged links between Justice Alexandre de Moraes and a banker accused of fraud deepened. The clash has spilled into the campaign for next month’s presidential election, adding to tensions around the court.” (09/10/26)
- Russian attacks kill seven in Ukraine as Kyiv targets gas plants deep in Arctic
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Russian forces have launched attacks across Ukraine, killing at least seven people, according to Ukrainian officials, as Kyiv claimed responsibility for a drone attack that set off a fire at a natural gas plant deep in Russia’s Arctic region. Four people were killed in a Russian attack in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine overnight on Thursday, while three were killed in a drone attack on a shopping centre in the northeastern city of Sumy, according to Ukrainian authorities. … Russian authorities said Ukrainian forces had launched a drone attack on the country’s Yamal-Nenets region, which is located some 2,800 kilometres (1,700 miles) from the Ukrainian border. Dmitry Artyukhov, the region’s governor, said the attack targeted an industrial facility in Novy Urengoy. The attack was repelled, but falling debris from the drone caused a fire, he said on Telegram.” (09/10/26)
- Trump tries to pull GOP out of midterm hole he dug for it with $5,000 bribe pledge
Source: Le Monde [France]
“A defiant Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday, August 9, that Republicans would ‘surge forward’ in November’s midterms, seeking to rally his party against grim election forecasts, weak approval ratings and mounting voter discontent over prices and his war with Iran. The president took the stage at an extraordinary Republican midterm convention in Dallas, a two-day gathering dubbed ‘Trumpapalooza,’ built around persuading his supporters that he is effectively on the ballot on November 3. … He promised every American adult would get $5,000 from the federal government if his Republican Party succeeds. … He did not say where the money would come from, citing only that ‘our country is making so much money.'” (09/10/26)
- Israel: Netanyahu to sue Haaretz for defamation over report UAE warned him prior to October 7 attack
Source: New York Post
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he had instructed his lawyers to file a defamation lawsuit against Haaretz, journalist Shlomi Eldar and others over the newspaper’s claims that the United Arab Emirates had warned him ahead of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre. Netanyahu said reviews by the Prime Minister’s Office, National Security Council and military secretariat found no record of a conversation between him and UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan from the beginning of September through Oct. 7, 2023. He also said entry records showed no visit by an Emirati representative who, according to Netanyahu, would have been required to facilitate such a call. … Haaretz reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed senior foreign sources, that Mohammed bin Zayed had warned Netanyahu shortly before Oct. 7 that Hamas was planning a major attack.” (09/09/26)
- Trump regime officials push to end constitutionally mandated censuses as of 2030
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed changes to the US census intended to exclude immigrants without legal [sic] status in addition to other groups, with potentially significant effects on the allocation of federal resources and drawing of districts in the House of Representatives. In a proposed rule published in the Federal Register, the Census Bureau also announced it was considering changes to the data it collects about race and ethnicity, amid the Trump administration’s push to rid the government of diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Conducted decennially, the census historically counts the ‘whole number of persons’ in the United States …” [editor’s note: Counting the whole number of persons in the US is what it’s constitutionally required to do and all it’s constitutionally allowed to do. Anything less or more isn’t “the census” as defined therein – TLK] (09/09/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/trump-census-changes-immigrants
- RI: Dan McKee becomes first governor in eight years to lose primary
Source: Politico
“Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Dan McKee became the first governor in eight years in the U.S. to lose a primary, falling on Wednesday to former CVS executive Helena Foulkes and becoming the latest victim of a rough year for incumbents. McKee’s campaign was bogged down by the botched handling of a years-long project to rebuild the Washington Bridge, which transports more than 70,000 drivers through Providence each day. The project has suffered from delays, cost overruns and disputes between state officials and former contractors that have raised questions about transparency and accountability for the project. … The last incumbent governor to lose a primary was Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer in 2018.” (09/09/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/09/dan-mckee-loses-rhode-island-primary-01069983
- UK: Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The Metropolitan Police is carrying out a criminal investigation into Reform UK over allegations it broke foreign funding laws, following a broadcast by Channel 4 News last week. An undercover reporter recorded two senior Reform aides apparently suggesting a way around electoral law to secure foreign party donations, one of which would have totalled £500,000. The police investigation by the Met’s Special Enquiry Team is being folded into an inquiry that has been under way into other donations to the party. A Reform UK spokesman said the party ‘denies any wrongdoing and will fully cooperate with the investigation’.” (09/09/26)
- Serbia: Vucic calls snap parliamentary election for November
Source: Associated Press
“Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday called an early parliamentary election for Oct. 25 after nearly two years of street protests that have rattled his rule. He issued a decree dissolving the 250-member Parliament and paving the way for the vote. He said a snap election was necessary because of ongoing tensions and divisions in the Balkan country. Vucic, who cannot run for another presidential term, has said he plans to run for prime minister instead. … The ballot will be held against the backdrop of heightened political tensions as ruling populists seek to hold on to power despite widespread popular discontent.” (09/09/26)
- Zelenskiy’s plane almost hit by drone, Norway’s PM says
Source: Reuters
“The plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to Oslo for the funeral of the king of Norway was nearly struck by a drone when taking off from Moldova on Tuesday, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told public broadcaster NRK on Wednesday. … Officials in Moldova made no comment on Stoere’s statement regarding Zelenskiy’s plane. Arrivals and departures at Chisinau airport were suspended for a time on Tuesday in connection with two Russian drones that entered Moldovan airspace. Several flights bound for the capital landed at airports outside Moldova or were forced into holding patterns, according to data from Flightradar24. One drone landed in a field, triggering a fire, while the second carried on into Romanian airspace.” (09/09/26)
- Three Major Revelations About The Gaza Holocaust In The Israeli Press
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“The Israeli press has published three significant revelations about the Gaza holocaust, reporting (1) that Benjamin Netanyahu concealed advanced knowledge of the Hamas attack on October 7, (2) that Israel rejected a Hamas offer to release all civilian hostages immediately after October 7, and (3) that according to an IDF drone operator, the Israeli military was intentionally firing on civilians throughout Gaza during its operations in the Palestinian territory. The first two come from a Haaretz article titled ‘Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn’t Brief Israel’s Security Chiefs’, which was released ahead of an upcoming Haaretz book about the hostage standoff in Gaza. Haaretz describes a call between Netanyahu and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, citing three foreign senior sources.” (09/10/26)
- Court Packing Is a Bad Idea. But It’s Still Constitutional.
Source: Reason
by Damon Root“Article III, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution says that ‘the judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.’ The document says nothing about how many justices should actually sit on the Supreme Court, leaving that rather important decision entirely in the hands of Congress. For advocates of court packing, or court expansion, or whatever other label the idea of adding new justices to the Court might happen to be going by nowadays, this constitutional language is a very handy ally to call upon and legal authority to cite. Whether you are in favor of court packing, opposed to it, or simply agnostic about the concept, there is no doubt about its constitutionality.” (09/10/26)
https://reason.com/2026/09/10/court-packing-is-a-bad-idea-but-its-still-constitutional/
- Legal legacy of 9/11 is a lack of accountability for the government
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Ben Wizner“Few who lived through the horror of Sept. 11, 2001, could have imagined that the next 25 years would pass without another large-scale attack on American soil. What was far more predictable and harmful, though, is the damage we’ve inflicted on ourselves and on the constitutional system of checks and balances meant to protect us and our democracy.” (09/10/26)
- The Enemy of My Enemy
Source: Consent Factory, Inc.
by CJ Hopkins“Chalk another one up for the ethno-nationalists! That’s right, as I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the Alternativ für Deutschland party (AfD) won an election last Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt, one of Germany’s sixteen federal states …. Germany’s federal domestic intelligence agency has designated them a ‘confirmed right-wing extremist endeavor,’ and the mainstream media have been calling them ‘Nazis.’ Which they are, kind of … or, okay, not literally. … People tend to refer to them as ‘Nazis’ … well, for a lot of reasons. For one thing, many of them are former neo-Nazis, or they attend meetings held by neo-Nazi groups, or they are otherwise friendly with actual neo-Nazis. Also, some of them spout Nazi slogans at their political rallies, or embed Nazi symbols in their campaign artwork … which, of course, is all in good fun.” (09/10/26)
https://consentfactory.org/2026/09/10/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-2/
- Protectionism or Expansionism: Trump’s Self-inflicted Dilemma
Source: Independent Institute
by Daniel Sánchez-Piñol“Protectionism or Expansionism: Trump’s Self-inflicted Dilemma.” (09/10/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/10/protectionism-trump-self-inflicted-dilemma/
- What Critics Keep Getting Wrong About Capitalism
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Vincent Geloso“There is nothing wrong with criticising capitalism, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman or classical liberalism. The problem is that much of the discussion does not pass even a modest ideological Turing test. An ideological Turing test asks whether one can state an opposing position so accurately that its proponents would recognise the argument as their own before one proceeds to criticise it. Here, too often, they would not.” (09/10/26)
https://fee.org/articles/what-critics-keep-getting-wrong-about-capitalism/
- The David Duke Standard; The Hasan Piker Exception
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder“Remember the media firestorm in 2016 when Donald Trump supposedly failed to denounce former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke? Trump, appearing on CNN, claimed he did not know enough about Duke to disavow him. Trump later blamed a faulty earpiece and repudiated Duke and the KKK. But the episode became Exhibit A for those who accused Trump of using racial ‘dog whistles’. Then-Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan declared, ‘If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry’. … Now consider the Democrat Party’s treatment of Hasan Piker, the socialist streamer who said, ‘America deserved 9/11.'” (09/10/26)
- Bessent and the Bonds
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman“Big talk, but he carries a very small stick.” (09/10/26)
- College Sports, LSU, and Judge Shopping: Anarcho-Tyranny Continues
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson“In a recent Mises article, Tho Bishop declared that the institution of college sports is currently under the grip of anarcho-tyranny, which he defined as ‘the state-driven phenomenon of criminalizing the enforcement of basic civic norms while increasingly restricting the liberties of law-abiding citizens.’ The latest outrage comes from Louisiana State University in which its enfant terrible football coach, Lane Kiffin, has done what he always has done: push the boundaries of the rules of college athletics well beyond where they should be.” (09/10/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/college-sports-lsu-and-judge-shopping-anarcho-tyranny-continues
- How realism gets the world profoundly wrong
Source: Washington Post
by Francis Fukuyama“There are in fact two types of realism, a ‘realism of means’ and a ‘realism of ends.’ … In the realism of ends, all states are said to pursue national interest, defined in terms of power and security. They may dress up this drive in the elevated language of democracy or human rights, but ultimately they all seek the same thing: maximization of their power. … I subscribe instead to a realism of means. I believe that liberal values and power shape the United States’ role in the world, while being realistic about both the extent to which the U.S. can prioritize democracy and the means by which such a goal could be achieved.” (09/10/26)
- When War Comes Home: A Constitutional Warning
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano‘A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of presidential overreach and the enduring wisdom of the Constitution’s separation of powers. It was unauthorized, unconstitutional, illegal, strategically incoherent and — by the standards by which wars must be judged — a geopolitical failure.” (09/10/26)
- The Economist Who Forgot Economics
Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis“We need answers for a postindustrial society, but that does not mean we should abandon the fundamental tenets of the free market.” (09/10/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-economist-who-forgot-economics/
- The Iran war looms large as BRICS leaders gather in New Delhi
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Michael Corbin“The conflict has divided members of the bloc, but India is determined to find areas of cooperation.” (09/10/26)
- Trump Laughing All the Way to the Bank … at the End of the World
Source: Common Dreams
by Tom Engelhardt“Honestly, I don’t think we really get it yet. Let’s face it. It’s going to be hot, hot, hot. Or do I mean hotter, hotter, hotter, or even hottest, hottest, hottest, or someday, for all we know, beyond any words we might now have to describe it. Though it seldom seems that way in the daily news, we’re talking about a genuinely apocalyptic possibility. Give us human beings full credit. Somehow, we’ve managed to come up with not one but two distinctly apocalyptic ways to potentially destroy ourselves and this planet—one a relatively speedy way to go and the other already operating in world-destroying slow motion—and that, believe me, is no small thing. Here are just a few examples of that slow-motion version of our self-destruction on this increasingly extreme planet of… well, can I really say ‘ours’ anymore, or should I say theirs?” (09/10/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-profit-climate-crisis
- Abdul El-Sayed Has a Socialist Platform and a Capitalist Life
Source: The Daily Economy
by Richard Menger“Abdul El-Sayed and his wife prosper by treating their medical credentials as private goods. Now he campaigns against the system that made it possible.” (09/10/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/abdul-el-sayed-has-a-socialist-platform-and-a-capitalist-life/
- Top Signs You’re Heading for a Quagmire
Source: Foreign Policy
by Stephen M Walt“In a world where great-power competition is intensifying, a revealing test of foreign-policy acumen is a country’s ability to avoid costly conflicts or other endeavors that waste resources, divert attention, and ultimately leave them weaker rather than stronger. In other words: staying out of quagmires. Great powers are often happy to see their rivals stumble into strategic quicksand and may even try to encourage such developments, but wise leaders try to stay out of this kind of trouble. In recent decades, China has done a far better job of avoiding quagmires than either the United States or Russia.” (09/10/26)
- The Mass Party of the Future
Source: Liberal Currents
by Samantha Hancox-Li“Liberalism’s problem isn’t structural. Liberalism’s problem is that we got out-hustled.” (09/10/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-mass-party-of-the-future/
- Beware: Monetary Geniuses At Work
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Charles Goyette“In Washington DC, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant buffs his nail on his shirt as he intervenes in support of the Japanese yen. Well, Japan is the leading foreign creditor of Washington’s borrowing. It holds $1.2 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities, and a country like ours, the world’s largest debtor, depends on the kindness of foreign lenders. Any meaningful liquidation of those holding would be a market shock that would drive interest rates higher. So, Scott Bessent is protecting the strained Treasury market with clever currency machinations. The secretary, like the president he serves, must be a stable genius.” (09/10/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/beware-monetary-geniuses-at-work
- What Charlie Kirk sowed
Source: UnHerd
by Richard Hanania“Tragedy has a way of unifying movements. For the Right, no recent event seemed more likely to generate such a galvanizing effect than the assassination of Charlie Kirk exactly one year ago. Kirk was the most famous conservative activist in the country, and his killing — sudden, bloody, and splashed across social media — was an act of staggering evil. Here was a man, by all accounts a decent husband and father, engaging college students in patient dialog, only to have his arguments answered by bullets. Yet the event didn’t bring the American Right together. Rather, it triggered infighting that persists to this day. To understand why, we have to be willing to honestly reassess the legacy left behind by the departed. We must even speak ill of the dead (for if we don’t, as Christopher Hitchens asked, who will?).” (09/09/260
- The Feds Are Spying on Your Bank Account
Source: Reason
by Matthew Petti“While the Treasury forces money changers to report on suspected immigrants, Homeland Security is having police pull people over for suspicious transactions.” (09/09/26)
https://reason.com/2026/09/09/the-feds-are-spying-on-your-bank-account/
- Mexican Cartel Drone Power Is Growing
Source: American Greatness
by Stephen Bryen“While much attention is given to Ukraine and Russia’s use of drones, just south of the United States, Mexico’s cartels are using drones in significant numbers, some of which surveil the United States and move drugs and cash across the border. They are also used to attack Mexican government and army organizations and competing cartels. According to one source, in 2025 the cartels flew more than 42,000 drones near the U.S. border. Around 1,000 drones each day try to cross the U.S. border, and most are not intercepted. Most of the drones used by the cartels are Chinese, and a large number have been modified either to carry explosives or drugs. The major source is the Chinese company DJI (Da Jiang Innovations), based in Shenzhen. It is the world’s biggest producer of drones, holding more than 80 percent of the world’s market.” (09/10/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/10/mexican-cartel-drone-power-is-growing/
- The Market Will Not Price In The Apocalypse
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman‘Because the end of the world cannot be hedged.” (09/09/26)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/the-market-will-not-price-in-the
- Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, What It Could Be
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Jillian C York & Eva Galperin“The term ‘digital sovereignty’ has become ubiquitous. European officials invoke it in debates about cloud infrastructure, AI, semiconductors, and platform regulation. Governments throughout the global majority use it to argue for greater control over data and communications infrastructure and boost their economies. Companies market ‘sovereign cloud’ products designed to reassure their customers that their information stays under local jurisdiction. But digital sovereignty could be something more: an opportunity for users around the world to build more resilient, open systems and the skills and infrastructure to maintain them.” (09/09/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/digital-sovereignty-what-it-what-it-could-be
- If Most Professors Have the Same Politics, That’s Bad for Democracy
Source: Persuasion
by Hrishikesh Joshi“[I]f I get to decide what information you consume, then I can control how and what you think. Indeed, this is why authoritarian regimes tightly control media and speech within their territories. The resulting consent will then not be genuine consent. What few people notice is that the above argument carries over to the modern university system. Academia, as it currently stands, has three features that, taken together, undermine the ideals of democracy.” (09/09/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/de-homogenize-the-university
- Your Politics Won’t Protect You from the Surveillance State
Source: Independent Institute
by Abigail R Hall & Patrik Ward“Federal surveillance is not new, but today’s scale and scope are unprecedented. Biometric screening is pervasive across federal, state and local agencies, which share this information. Recently, the FBI announced the development of predictive AI models designed to detect potential criminal activity before it takes place. Even the laziest researcher can find many examples of abuse or the potential for abuse.” (09/09/26)
- The German Far Right’s Regional Victory Will Have Major National Consequences
Source: The UnPopulist
by Ronald Meinardus“Establishment parties have no idea how to repair this massive breach in Germany’s post-WWII firewall against resurgent fascism.” (09/09/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-german-far-rights-regional-victory
- Socialist Idiocracy
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“While it is expected that Republicans — such as Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) — would object to the rise of socialist agitation in the Democratic Party, getting Democratic leaders to object to the new radicalism has not proved quite so easy.” [editor’s note: The only reason I can think of for Republicans to object to Democratic socialism is that they don’t like having their own socialist thunder stolen – TLK] (09/09/26)
- Building Power, One Person at a Time
Source: The American Prospect
by Whitney Curry Wimbish“Dio Smith had a clean record before they showed up to protest OpenAI executives’ plan to dominate American life, drain increasingly scarce resources, and otherwise steal their future. They gathered with more than 30 other students on August 10 at the artificial intelligence company’s new lobbying headquarters, just blocks from the half-destroyed White House. They dropped banners and held signs, all of which demanded that the company cease and desist. Cops closed in after two hours. They arrested 13 students, separated them by gender, sent them to two different precincts in D.C., and left OpenAI executives free to continue their $140 million-plus lobbying project to manipulate the government in their favor. Smith was in jail for six hours, taking solace from their preparation with other student organizers and reminding themselves that they were following the paths laid by their ancestors: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Huey Newton.” (09/10/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/09/10/oct-2026-building-power-one-person-at-a-time/
- An Open Letter to Texas Evangelicals Who Want to Vote for James Talarico
Source: Roads Go Ever On
by Bekah Graham“Being involved in Texas politics for years meant I was prepared for the worst possible people to run (and likely win) as Republicans. I was also prepared for the Democratic Party of Texas to put up an uninspiring, excessively flawed, or self-interested candidate to predictably lose against the Republican ghoul. But then James Talarico got into the race. I expected that I would be letting Paxton’s trash record speak for itself, with nothing but a milquetoast Democrat or a well-meaning Libertarian to suggest against him.” (09/09/26)
https://bekahgwen.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-texas-evangelicals
- Americans Should Never Have Given the US Government a Pass After 9/11
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“One of the most disastrous consequences of the 9/11 aftermath was the pass that the American people gave to their own government. Their anger was focused entirely on the terrorists rather than on both the terrorists and the government that provoked the attacks. There were two reasons for this phenomenon. The biggest reason is that Americans bought into the rationale that U.S. officials immediately announced as to motive — that is, the reason the terrorists struck on 9/11 with their devastating attack. U.S. officials said that the terrorists had been motivated to strike out of a supposed hatred for America’s ‘freedom and values.’ … The second reason for Americans’ failure to focus on the responsibility that the U.S. government had for the 9/11 retaliatory strikes is that Americans viewed their federal government as their daddy, one that would never lie to them or put them in danger.” (09/09/26)
- The Framers Trusted States, Not Washington, With Elections
Source: Cato Institute
by Walter Olson“America has been a great innovator in the realm of elections, introducing many methods new developments from party primaries to early and mail voting. Some innovations fall by the wayside, while others catch on and become standard. Why trade this ferment of democracy for an arrangement where permission from Washington is required for anything new? Why risk foisting a bad method on everyone because someone in Washington liked it? Above all, the Framers did it this way because they feared that a ruling national faction, whether based in Congress or a White House, might someday gain power over election administration nationwide and use it to entrench themselves in office.” (09/09/26)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/framers-trusted-states-not-washington-elections
- You know what’s best for you
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal“What don’t I know? I don’t know exactly how you should live or every detail of your situation. I don’t know how to solve every possible random problem in the world. I don’t know what complications might arise. I don’t know solutions I can’t see or haven’t thought of. All the variables; the consequences of any potential solution. I don’t know how, or if, society should be run. I don’t know, and I accept it. While I’m comfortable saying I don’t know, there are also things I do know. I know that no one else knows those answers, either. If they claim to, they are being dishonest. Those who make up legislation are often even more ignorant about the topics they legislate on than the rest of us.” (09/09/26)
- Liberalism Under Threat
Source: Liberalism.org
by Michael C Munger“The state should not be dismissed as evil, but neither should it be romanticized as inherently good, a focus of moral value in and of itself. There are legitimate and difficult questions about whether there is a collective ‘will’ that the state discovers and enacts. The most plausible, and modest, claim is that people use the technology of ‘state power’ to provide mutual protection and achieve shared goals. The alternatives to this modest view of the state are a wide and haphazard range of different moral and practical collectivisms, imposed by central authorities. We can agree that the state must have police authority, but endowing the state with moral authority is simply incompatible with liberalism.” (09/09/26)
- Welfare Queens of the Right and the Diet Coke of Socialists
Source: The Erick Erickson Show
by Erick-Woods Erickson“The people who brought us tariffs and said they’d cost us nothing now insist that putting stay-at-home moms on welfare will cost us nothing, too, so long as they get to keep picking the winners and losers. Moms who go to work get to subsidize those who do not. The GOP gets to open a new front in the culture war, pitting moms against moms. Superficially, the policy sounds good. Children raised in stable two-parent homes outperform every other group in school and in earnings, and a policy that makes those homes easier to build deserves a hearing. … The Vice President’s heart is in the right place, but his plan is a terrible idea. In the face of rising socialism, the Vice President is offering socialism-lite. And just as Diet Coke is never as popular as regular Coke, Diet Coke Socialism can’t beat the real thing either.” (09/09/26)
https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/welfare-queens-of-the-right-and-the
- Trump Iran War Outlook Faces Pushback from His Own Generals
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland“A rare leak of significant opposition among top U.S. military brass to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s intention to keep more than 50,000 American forces on alert in the Middle East reports a ‘more dire’ outlook for the Iran conflict’s effect on U.S. military readiness globally. According to the Washington Post, a source familiar with the generals’ assessment reported that the brass viewed the six-month war as ‘too much for too long.’ The leak was prompted by the Pentagon’s decision to keep some forces in the region into fiscal year 2027. U.S forces have been pulled from areas of the globe more strategic to U.S. interests than the Persian Gulf for a needless attack that turned into yet another American quagmire in the Greater Middle East, thus degrading worldwide training and readiness for more important missions.” (09/09/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/09/trump-iran-war-pushback-generals/
- Zitelmann on Hitler’s Economics
Source: Bet On It
“After my series on the Nazi economy, I [Bryan Caplan] discovered the work of independent scholar Rainer Zitelmann. He’s had an amazing career in Germany doing two things I greatly admire: making lots of money in real estate, and judiciously assessing the Nazis’ degree of commitment to socialism. In this interview, Zitelmann weighs in on ‘What Hitler really thought about economics,’ carefully distinguishing Hitler’s somewhat protean public persona from his sincere long-run vision for the German economy.” (09/10/26)
- The Daily, 09/10/26
Source: New York Times
“Trump’s War on Mail-In Voting.” (09/10/26)
- Underthrow Podcast, 09/10/26
Source: Underthrow
“Mamdami’s groceries will eat New York.” (09/10/26)
- Matt Hoh on The Kyle Anzalone Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“JD Vance and Ben Shapiro Attempt to Sell Israel’s War to the American People.” (09/10/26)
- TAC Right Now, 09/10/26
Source: The American Conservative
“Germany’s Real Right Rocks Europe, w/ Filip Gaspar.” (09/10/26)
- The Blessings of Liberty with Jeffrey Rosen, 09/10/26
Source: The Blessings of Liberty with Jeffrey Rosen
“Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment.” (09/10/26)
https://rosenjeffrey.substack.com/p/emancipation-war-the-fall-of-slavery
- Advisory Opinions, 09/10/26
Source: The Dispatch
‘Insular Cases | Interview: Chief Judge Jeff Sutton and Neil Weare.” (09/10/26)
- Libertarian Angle, 09/10/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Historical Chaos in Monetary Theory.” (09/10/26)
- The Tom Woods Show, episode 2794
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“He Went to the Places the State Department Says Will Kill You.” (09/10/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2794-he-went-to-the-places-the-state-department-says-will-kill-you/
- Fountainhead Forum, episode 485
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Panel discussion in honor of Brian Doherty.” (09/09/26)
https://rumble.com/v7fasoe-ff-485-tribute-panel-for-brian-doherty.html
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/09/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Pakistan May Launch Airstrikes in Yemen, Trump Threatens More Attacks on Iranian Tankers, and More.” (09/09/26)
- Kibbe on Liberty, episode 485
Source: Free the People
“Libertarians Are Avenging Massie | Guest: Jeremy Todd.” (09/09/26)
- LPA Two Hour Lunch Hour, episode 10
Source: LP Alliance
“Join us for our anything goes podcast every Wednesday at noon eastern!” (09/09/26)
- The Kyle Anzalone Show, 09/09/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“America’s Iran War Is Unraveling — Is Ukraine the Next Domino?” (09/09/26)
- So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 09/09/26
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
“What’s the First Amendment’s original meaning? w/ Jud Campbell and Stephen Solomon.” (09/09/26)
- Reason Interview: Jon Ronson
Source: Reason
“Why So Many Men Feel Lost.” (09/09/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/09/09/why-so-many-men-feel-lost/
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 09/09/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Gallup: 89% of America Sees Widespread Corruption In Government.” (09/09/26)
- Rising, 09/09/26
Source: The Hill
‘VP JD Vance’s socialist welfare Plan exposed: Conservatives Feuding!” (09/09/26)
- Reasonably Optimistic, 09/09/26
Source: Washington Post
“The strange truth behind our obsession with UFOs and aliens.” (09/09/26)
- Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 09/09/26
Source: Freedom Works
“Ryan Young, Competitive Enterprise Institute ‘US-Canada Trade War.'” (09/09/26)
https://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2026-09-09_zfw89022026.mp3